MYTHOLOGY|PHILOSOPHY|LIFE LESSONS
Dynamics Of Colours Of Joy
How a color tag adds or deducts and affects our lives
Last week I went to Vrindavan near Mathura to visit the famous Lord Krishna Banke Bihari temple. Holi begins over there much before the actual Holi festival celebrated with much fanfare in India.
In the temple, they distributed white with traces of yellow flowers to everyone. This is an Indian flower named Tesu and it stands for purity. The organic colors were made out of flowers and plants such as roses, Neem, beetroot, and many others. We could distinctly see white, light yellow, red, green, and purple colors.
The color was being poured and splashed like a light drizzle on the visitors from water guns. This was splashed with the emotion of joy. It actually felt like a breezy, cool, and light spell of rain.
The pandit (Indian Preist)was narrating the mythology of Holi. The word Holi is from Holika who was the sister of demon King Hiranyakashyapu.
The legend states that Prahlad was a devotee of Lord Vishnu, and was born to King Hiranyakashyapu. Prahlad’s own father tried to kill him several times, as he did not like his devotion to Lord Vishnu, but he escaped unhurt each time a plot was made to kill him.
